Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 10

10. (1) The Commission has power, for or in connexion with the performance of
its functions-

   (a)  to purchase land;

   (b)  to take land on lease;

   (c)  to take easements over land;

   (d)  to sell, or otherwise dispose of, land vested in the Commission but
        not required for the purposes of the Commission;

   (e)  to lease land vested in the Commission the use of which is not for the
        time being required by the Commission;

   (f)  to release any easement over land; and

   (g)  to do anything incidental to any of the powers specified in the
        preceding paragraphs of this sub-section.

(2) The Commission may conduct investigations and research with a view to the
development and improved efficiency of telecommunications services generally.

(3) Subject to the regulations, the Commission may provide, or authorize the
provision of, services for, or by way of, the dissemination, by means of a
telecommunications service provided by it, of information that is, in the
opinion of the Commission, of utility to the public, to persons who seek that
information.

(4) The Commission may deliver to the person to whom it is addressed a
telecommunications message that has not been transmitted over any
telecommunications system.